Hey guys. Right now, everybody is probably mostly thinking about the upcoming Montevina+Penryn update (if any) for Macs. Now, there's also, as many of you should know, Core i7 next year, eliminating the FSB. Now, this effectively moves the bottleneck from FSB speed to Processor clock speed, correct?
What I wanted to ask is, actually, nowadays, is there actually still an FSB bottleneck at 1066MHz? I mean, if there isn't actually any real constraint at 1066MHz, wouldn't that mean the QuickPath Interconnect architecture would bring, at this point, close to no performance gains? I mean, sure, there's bound to be some power consumption decrease, and there's also bound to be some performance gains from the returned multithreading feature... but... really, other than that, does the QPI (QuickPath Interconnect) really bring more performance benefits at this age, when compared to 1066MHz?
Just wanted some opinions... Of course, naturally, informed answers are also welcome
What I wanted to ask is, actually, nowadays, is there actually still an FSB bottleneck at 1066MHz? I mean, if there isn't actually any real constraint at 1066MHz, wouldn't that mean the QuickPath Interconnect architecture would bring, at this point, close to no performance gains? I mean, sure, there's bound to be some power consumption decrease, and there's also bound to be some performance gains from the returned multithreading feature... but... really, other than that, does the QPI (QuickPath Interconnect) really bring more performance benefits at this age, when compared to 1066MHz?
Just wanted some opinions... Of course, naturally, informed answers are also welcome